About Stowers

There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes at Stowers Machinery when a customer buys a new machine – if it’s not already on the lot, it needs to be acquired. While many customers may know their Stowers machine sales representative well, they probably don’t know that the man who is busy pulling strings to get that new machine into the customer’s hands is Eddie Collins. And Eddie has had his hand in acquiring just about every new earth moving machine that Stowers has sold for the past 36 years. “Sometimes I’m driving around town, and I see all this Cat equipment, and I know that, at one time, [read more…]

Bud Stowers, age 94, passed away peacefully at his home on July 7, 2016. He was the oldest of the three brothers (Bud, Dick and Harry) who started Stowers Machinery Corporation in 1960. He and his brothers were born and raised in Bluefield, West Virginia. A combat Marine in World War II, Bud came home after the war and joined his father’s automobile business, Stowers Motors. In the mid 1950s, Bud developed a keen interest in Caterpillar. His younger brother, Harry Stowers, had started working for Caterpillar in Peoria, Illinois, and the Cat dealer for West Virginia, Cecil Walker, was Bud’s good friend. [read more…]

We’ve added some new people and promoted some others. Just in case you haven’t met them yet, we’d like to introduce some of our folks. Wesley Cowden has joined Stowers Machinery as a compact construction equipment sales representative in the West Knoxville store. Skip Turner has joined Stowers Machinery as a compact construction equipment sales coordinator in the West Knoxville store. Hunter King has been promoted from equipment fleet specialist to rental coordinator at our West Knoxville store. Hunter has worked his way up from the warehouse to his current position over the past four years, so you may already know him. Matthew Reid has been promoted from his position as [read more…]